Mustafa Jabbar has been elected as the president of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), country’s top trade body for Software and ITES companies, for the term of 2016-2019.
The association will also see Russell T Ahmed (Team Creative) as senior vice president, M Rashidul Hasan (Systech Digital Limited) as vice president and Farhana A Rahman (UY Systems Limited) as vice president for the term.
The election was held at the BASIS office located in Karwan Bazar in Dhaka on June 25. The primary result of the election was announced thereafter.
Other elected executive council members are Uttam Kumar Paul (Best Business Bond Limited), Mostafizur Rahman Sohel (Advanced ERP BD Limited), Syed Almas Kabir (Metronet Bangladesh Limited), Sonia Bashir Kabir (Microsoft Bangladesh) and Riyad SA Husain (Magnito Digital) who will take up the positions as directors.
Newly elected BASIS chief Mustafa Jabbar (Ananda Computers) said we had declared in our election manifesto that we would work for the country’s domestic software and the ITES sector.
“Our top priority will be to realise that vision. We will work towards freeing the sector from dominance of foreign companies. We will move forward with this target.”
Sunday, March 23, 2025
